A lovely sister in my cong stuck with her physically abusive da'd husband. He eventually stabbed her to death.
Its such a lovely religion that allows you to get beaten and not have a spripural divorce!
Posts by mia_b
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27Honeymoon Disfellowshippings
by dozy inone of the anomalies of the disfellowshipping process is the common situation when someone who is unscripturally divorced remarries.
in these occasions , the instruction is to always disfellowship the individual , regardless of repentance or attitude - what is referred to as a honeymoon df in elders jargon.
hence you have the (to me) bizarre situation of privately reproving a child molester , rapist or murderer one week and disfellowshipping a newly remarried middle aged sister who has been divorced for 20 years the next week.
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Top Gear are in AMerica - SOOOO funny!
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What Seperates A "Good" Jehovah's Witness From A So-So One?
by minimus into me a "good" jw always knew he needed to "do more" wheras a flunky wouldn't give a rat's ass.
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A good jw is a self righteous religious bigot the so-so one may take on board that people can have a point of view that differs from the borg.
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ARE YOU UPSET THAT YOU DIDN"T GO TO COLLEGE?
by minimus ini have read of some people's bitterness because they were denied the opportunity to go to college.
during the 60's and 70's the society really discouraged any education other than what was necessary.
since the end was so near, especially around 1975, anybody that decided to go to "higher education" was considered very weak and unbalanced.
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WOW August '02 this is an OLD topic! The problem is that the USA has school leaving age of 18 whereas in the UK its 16. And UK witnesses were unaware of this fact and encouraged to leave at 16... my dad did actually point this out (he has some good points even if he did molest me i suppose) however saying that - he wanted me to leave home at 15 and repeatedly said he hated the sight of me and wanted me to earn money to pay back my debt of being bought up. lol. so although i wanted "A-levels" there was no way he'd have supported me. so i worked full time, went to college, got a degree and am a chartered certified accountant. if i had gone to university i think i'd hav realised the falicy of the borg and left sooner - thats what they dont want. keeping people in line is easier if theyre relatively uneducated even if theyre bright. (sorry i use mozilla firefox so i cant put it in paragraphs)
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who would have thought about it?
by junctions-wife ini was at lunch the other day.
when i over heard an associate from the photo lab, saying that this would be her son's first birthday party.
then another associate asked is was a jw, and she said yes, but no longer.
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wow - you were certainly in the right place at the right time werent u? glad you told her of silentlambs
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Jesus Christ, Michael the Archangel does it really matter?
by unbaptized injesus christ, michael the archangel does it really matter?.
because at the end of the day he's still our lord and saviour.
he died on a stake for our sins.
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As for part (2) of the watchtower argument, it is faulty logic to conclude that descending "with an archangels voice" means that Jesus is an archangel. If descending with an archangels voice makes Christ and archangel, then descending "with Gods trumpet" makes him God. The same logic must be applied to the entire verse, not just part of it.
thats an interesting argument! i like!
but i cant see how it does matter - really and truly if we are either a bible beleiver or not and what in the bible you take literally and how you read it - as long as you live your life and treat others how you want to be treated - it doesn't matter
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I'm new....and I have a rant
by Faded-out inok, i apologize for this impromptu introduction/rant, but i am reeling right now and really have no where elso to turn.. let me start off by giving you a little history of what has gotten me to this point.
this post might be a little long, so you might want to dust off those .
reading glasses.. anyways, my parents were baptised as dubs in the pre 1975 frenzy to make it to the new system...if they only knew 30 some odd years later...suprise, we are .
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welcome faded out! if you DO discuss with your child be very subtle. don't want the mind control to cause it to have to shop you. and under 12? WTF???
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Here my present to you
by + inwhere is your brother?
(genesis 4:9) .
the watchtower society goes the way of cain (jude 11).
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That was really good
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Whoohoo 2
by mrsjones5 inafter sweating, praying, and driving my husband crazy for the last week, they called today.
my second interview will be next wednesday sometime around 12 or 1pm, they'll call to finalize the time.
i gotta make a skirt.. josie.
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Good Luck!
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SCANDAL WBTS LEGAL (blood)
by DannyHaszard intop ranked on the news wire witness for the family.
national post, canada - 11 minutes ago.
when the bc government seized three sextuplets last month to ensure they received blood transfusions, the lawyer for the jehovah's witnesses parents .... saturday february 10 2007 witness for the familydebate over role of sextuplet case lawyer tom blackwellnational post.
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"The person coming from Bethel [Witnesses headquarters] is the spokesman of God," said Michael Saunders, a former Bethelite and paralegal with the Church. "I know it sounds really, really ludicrous ... [But] essentially, disobeying him is disobeying God."
That IS ludicrous!